Jon Fitch, cut by the UFC in February, makes his World Series of Fighting debut Friday night.Zuffa LLC via Getty Images

Jon Fitch thinks the UFC is more WWE than MLB or NFL.

The former welterweight top contender told The Post that he believes the UFC has a nearly scripted path for its fighters and tries to force the issue when those plans go awry.

“I don’t think what they do is a sport,” Fitch said. “Fighters are pawns in their game. They have their plan that they want to go through because they think that plan is gonna make money and they’re gonna do whatever they can to make sure that happens.”

Fitch was cut by the UFC in February after a loss to Demian Maia despite a 14-3-1 record with the company. He makes his debut with upstart World Series of Fighting against Josh Burkman on Friday night in Las Vegas.

Ironically, Maia is a guy Fitch points to in order to further his theory about what he calls the UFC’s “glass ceiling.” In Fitch’s mind, he believes Maia should have been vaulted into title contention after beating him. Instead, Maia is booked to face Josh Koscheck, who is coming off two straight losses, in August.

“That’s a fight that doesn’t do anything for Demian Maia,” Fitch said. “They don’t want to put him in a situation where he can climb the ladder, because they don’t feel like he can make them money.”

He added: “You’re trying to be the best in the world. You’re trying to win fights. You’re trying to be a pro athlete. Not a professional wrestler or an actor.”

Money is another issue Fitch has with the UFC. He doesn’t believe fighters are getting paid enough of a percentage of the UFC’s revenue. The UFC is believed to be worth upwards of $2 billion, though it is a private company and its finances are not open to the public.

UFC president Dana White called Fitch “delusional” in an interview with MMAjunkie.com last week after Fitch called the UFC “a hostile work environment” on the World Series of Fighting media conference call. White went on to say that the UFC paid Fitch $302,000 in discretionary bonuses during his eight-year stint and that he was given every chance to succeed.

“He was complaining about what he had to go through here, about people saying stuff under their breath to him and all this bulls—,” White told the site. “Jon Fitch is so full of s—. He’s f—— delusional. First of all, he had every opportunity that anyone else had. After Georges St-Pierre beat the living s— out of him, did we treat him differently or anything?”

Fitch was given two more top contender fighters after the loss to champion St-Pierre and lost both. However, he had to win eight in a row to even get that shot against St-Pierre. Critics have pointed to his deliberate, wrestling-based fighting style that can turn some fans off. But Fitch doesn’t want to hear that.

“I think that’s more [UFC] propaganda than anything,” Fitch said. “A lot of people who say those things have never even seen my fights.”

They’ll get the chance to catch him Friday night at WSOF 3, which airs at 11 p.m. from the Hard Rock Hotel in Vegas. Fitch says he felt like an “unwanted bastard child” in the UFC, but he’s still a top 170-pounder in the world and arguably the best fighter World Series of Fighting has.

Fitch, 35, plans on soon becoming WSOF’s first welterweight champion. And if that promotion cannot keep him busy, he has the ability to fight for a non-competing organization – say Asian promotions like ONE FC or DREAM – written into his contract.

“I feel a lot happier, a lot freer,” Fitch said. “I’m able to be a martial artist again and not cattle.”